Lamentations 4:5

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Lamentations 4:3–7 · Berean Standard Bible

3 Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness.

4 The nursing infant’s tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.

5 Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets; those brought up in crimson huddle in ash heaps.

6 The punishment of the daughter of my people is greater than that of Sodom, which was overthrown in an instant without a hand turned to help her.

7 Her dignitaries were brighter than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies were more ruddy than rubies, their appearance like sapphires.

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Deuteronomy 28:54

The most gentle and refined man among you will begrudge his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children who have survived,

Deuteronomy 28:55

refusing to share with any of them the flesh of his children he will eat because he has nothing left in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within all your gates.

Deuteronomy 28:56

The most gentle and refined woman among you, so gentle and refined she would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge the husband she embraces and her son and daughter

Isaiah 3:16

The LORD also says: “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty— walking with heads held high and wanton eyes, prancing and skipping as they go, jingling the bracelets on their ankles—

Isaiah 3:17

the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will make their foreheads bare.”

Isaiah 3:18

In that day the Lord will take away their finery: their anklets and headbands and crescents;

Isaiah 3:19

their pendants, bracelets, and veils;

Isaiah 3:20

their headdresses, ankle chains, and sashes; their perfume bottles and charms;

Isaiah 3:21

their signet rings and nose rings;

Isaiah 3:22

their festive robes, capes, cloaks, and purses;

Isaiah 3:23

and their mirrors, linen garments, tiaras, and shawls.

Isaiah 3:24

Instead of fragrance there will be a stench; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of styled hair, baldness; instead of fine clothing, sackcloth; instead of beauty, shame.

Isaiah 3:25

Your men will fall by the sword, and your warriors in battle.

Isaiah 3:26

And the gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.

Isaiah 24:6

Therefore a curse has consumed the earth, and its inhabitants must bear the guilt; the earth’s dwellers have been burned, and only a few survive.

Isaiah 24:7

The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.

Isaiah 24:8

The joyful tambourines have ceased; the noise of revelers has stopped; the joyful harp is silent.

Isaiah 24:9

They no longer sing and drink wine; strong drink is bitter to those who consume it.

Isaiah 24:10

The city of chaos is shattered; every house is closed to entry.

Isaiah 24:11

In the streets they cry out for wine. All joy turns to gloom; rejoicing is exiled from the land.

Isaiah 24:12

The city is left in ruins; its gate is reduced to rubble.

Isaiah 32:9

Stand up, you complacent women; listen to me. Give ear to my word, you overconfident daughters.

Isaiah 32:10

In a little more than a year you will tremble, O secure ones. For the grape harvest will fail and the fruit harvest will not arrive.

Isaiah 32:11

Shudder, you ladies of leisure; tremble, you daughters of complacency. Strip yourselves bare and put sackcloth around your waists.

Isaiah 32:12

Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines,

Isaiah 32:13

and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers— even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.

Isaiah 32:14

For the palace will be forsaken, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become caves forever— the delight of wild donkeys and a pasture for flocks—

Jeremiah 6:2

Though she is beautiful and delicate, I will destroy the Daughter of Zion.

Jeremiah 6:3

Shepherds and their flocks will come against her; they will pitch their tents all around her, each tending his own portion:

Amos 6:3

You dismiss the day of calamity and bring near a reign of violence.

Amos 6:4

You lie on beds inlaid with ivory, and lounge upon your couches. You dine on lambs from the flock and calves from the stall.

Amos 6:5

You improvise songs on the harp like David and invent your own musical instruments.

Amos 6:6

You drink wine by the bowlful and anoint yourselves with the finest oils, but you fail to grieve over the ruin of Joseph.

Amos 6:7

Therefore, you will now go into exile as the first of the captives, and your feasting and lounging will come to an end.

Luke 7:25

Otherwise, what did you go out to see? A man dressed in fine clothes? Look, those who wear elegant clothing and live in luxury are found in palaces.

1 Timothy 5:6

But she who lives for pleasure is dead even while she is still alive.

Revelation 18:7

As much as she has glorified herself and lived in luxury, give her the same measure of torment and grief. In her heart she says, ‘I sit as queen; I am not a widow and will never see grief.’

Revelation 18:8

Therefore her plagues will come in one day— death and grief and famine— and she will be consumed by fire, for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.”

Revelation 18:9

Then the kings of the earth who committed sexual immorality and lived in luxury with her will weep and wail at the sight of the smoke rising from the fire that consumes her.

2 Samuel 1:24

O daughters of Israel, weep for Saul, who clothed you in scarlet and luxury, who decked your garments with ornaments of gold.

Proverbs 31:21

When it snows, she has no fear for her household, for they are all clothed in scarlet.

Luke 16:19

Now there was a rich man dressed in purple and fine linen, who lived each day in joyous splendor.

Job 24:8

Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against the rocks for want of shelter.

Jeremiah 9:21

For death has climbed in through our windows; it has entered our fortresses to cut off the children from the streets, the young men from the town squares.

Jeremiah 9:22

Declare that this is what the LORD says: “The corpses of men will fall like dung upon the open field, like newly cut grain behind the reaper, with no one to gather it.”

Luke 15:16

He longed to fill his belly with the pods the pigs were eating, but no one would give him a thing.